Re: Breton - Slovenian correspondences

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 61636
Date: 2008-11-15

--- On Fri, 11/14/08, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> Subject: [tied] Re: Breton - Slovenian correspondences
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, November 14, 2008, 8:27 PM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:
> >
> > At 4:55:27 PM on Friday, November 14, 2008, Rick
> McCallister
> > wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > I seem to remember that the Breton word for
> "lively"
> > > begins with bis-,
> >
> > Words that I can find whose senses include
> 'lively' are
> > <buhezek>, <bev>, <buan>, and
> <bliv>, with various shades of
> > meaning.
>
> Do you have their etymology,
> and info on whether they're Vannetais or not?
>
>
> Torsten

The point was to compare it to Basque bizi, if I remember correctly. If there are archives for that list, you can find it there. I remember that Roz Frank came up with it.